April 2018

THE two warring MDC-T leaders, Nelson Chamisa (pictured) and Thokozani Khupe, who are fighting over use of the opposition party’s name and symbols following their acrimonious split last month, have reportedly agreed to go back to the negotiating table to resolve their differences amicably with a possibility of reuniting

FORMER President Robert Mugabe has claimed that his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa did not invite him to attend the country’s 38th independence celebrations in Harare last week.

Mugabe was responding to reports that the veteran former Zanu PF leader had “frozen himself out” of the country’s Independence Day celebrations last week which were attended by an array of dignitaries, including diplomats and opposition party leaders.

SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean businessman, Justice Maphosa (pictured), who is credited with sheltering President Emmerson Mnangagwa shortly before former leader, Robert Mugabe stepped down last November, is being investigated by the Hawks for allegedly committing multimillion-rand fraud in the North West.

FORMER President Robert Mugabe (pictured) has allegedly taken the law into his own hands and unleashed Gushungo Holdings employees and security personnel to violently eject small-scale gold miners at the disputed Smithfield Farm in Mazowe.

THE 15 000 striking nurses at public hospitals yesterday scoffed at their purported summary dismissal from the public service, literally telling Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured) who announced the decision in a statement on Tuesday, to go hang.

GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, fired all nurses at public hospitals who downed tools on Monday and immediately replaced them with retired and trained-but-unemployed nurses, as a stop-gap measure to save lives.

This came after management at most major hospitals also joined the nurses’ industrial action.

THE country’s war veterans have, in a rare show of solidarity, ganged up with opposition parties in a fresh campaign to strip former President Robert Mugabe of his multiple farms for redistribution to millions of deserving Zimbabweans.

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday poked holes in former President Robert Mugabe’s 37-year reign, saying the Zanu PF leader was like the Biblical Moses, who successfully rescued his kinsmen from oppression, but failed to deliver them “to the land of milk and honey because of his delinquency”

THE first day of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya’s rape trial was punctuated by thrills and turns, as Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba took over prosecuting duties and personally handled the matter, as the defence lawyers protested, accusing him of pursuing a personal vendetta against the cleric.